Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-07

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Below is appended resolution nineteer
of the State Land Board, being the regu'
lations under which the board is nov
operating, and is substantially the Iult
under which ell sales have been made
since the adoption of the first resolution
February 81, 1884, restricting sales t
settlers only, and limiting the quantity tt
not more than one section to each pur
chaser.
The changes, by the number of ;esolu
lions adopted, having been made with i
view, as far as possible, and as expert
ence dictated, of formulating euCh a rule
of sale as would Confine the 81 les to bons
tide settlers and at the same tt ne prevent
abuses and speculation.
RESOLUTION NO. -.
Resolved by the State Land Board, that
hereafter resolution No. IS of this board
shall be amended to read as f lows:
RESOLUTION No. Is.
Resolved by the State Land Board, that
the following rules and regulations are
prescribed for the sale of the unwatered
agricultural and pasture lands:
ANY person who is twenty-one years of
age and who desires to secure home
stead in the state of Texas, is authorized
to enter upon and purchase any unsold
and unwstered portion of the school,, uni
versity or asylum lands of the stste of
Texas, not to exceed $40 acres, at the
minimum price fixed by law for such land
(S2 per acre., subject to the following
regulations:
l. The unwatered agricultural and
pasture lands can only be fled upon or
sold in tracts of 16O, 800, 1870 and $40
acres each, except in cases of irregular
and fragmentary sections or Subdivisions
thereof, in which cases no remnant of
less than 100 acres shall be left, but must
be purchased by the applicant. The
transfer of the claim or interest of the
first purchaser of any of said land shall
not be made until after such purchaser
shall have actually settled in arson upon
the land, improved it and made it his
home.
.. Any person desiring to secure such
homestead or any Of said lads, which
may be leased or unsold, 81 IL at the
time he or she has made s, cction, file
with the county or district S surveyor, or
other agent of the state for the territory
in which such land is situate, written
description of such land, givi: me name
and number of certificate /. virtue of
which it was originally surveyed, the
number of survey, number of block,
county, and approximate distance from
county seat if organized, or from geo.
graphical center of the county if unor-
ganized, with specific description Of the
land and natural products.
3. The applicant shsll at the same time
make and subscribe the following oath
before some officer in the county, land or
judicial district, authorized to administer
paths, to-wit:
I, --, do solemnly swear that
desire the land fer which have this day
made my application for homestead for
myself; that I will within ninety days be-
come an actual settler and resident upon
The said land, and will continue to reside
upon and improve the same for the period
If three consecutive years; that during
he said time 1 will not sell the same to
my other person except to such person |!
Is will continue to reside upon and i'm
prove the same as homestead; that l
I'm not acquiring the same in trust for, |
,r for the use and benefit of any other !